Are you sure? It’s not that big of a deal.
This is something that deserves to be celebrated. I don’t know who made her feel insignificant in the past, but that will be changing.
Matteo
You’re right. It’s not a big deal.
It’s a huge deal.
Sunny
Isn’t this weird, though? This deal we made. We don’t even know each other.
Matteo
How do you think people get to know one another, Sunny? How am I supposed to know you if I don’t get to see you.
When she doesn’t reply right away, my finger twitches. I can unsend it, and pretend I didn’t say it that way. Those words, they feel like there’s too much emotion tethered to them.
This is an emotionless transaction.
I’m allowed to want to get to know her with no other intention than that. There would never be a future for us in the cards, especially when that’s the one thing I will never want. She’s my good luck charm for the rest of this season. If she’s mine until then, we’re going to get to know one another.
There’s no way around it.
Sunny
I don’t think you truly want to know me, Matteo. I’m here to serve a purpose for you, as a distraction. Someone to pump your ego.
You don’t want to know the real me.
I stare back at my phone, words failing me for a moment. She has no idea what I want.
Matteo
Why don’t you let me be the one who decides that?
Time is momentarily suspended as I’m trapped in a tin can flying through the sky. Damn, what did Aiden do for her to be this jaded?
But then again, I don’t know anything about her and there’s a burning curiosity inside of me. Most of the women I meet only ever want to talk about themselves.
Not Jade. She keeps her cards close to her chest with her poker face perfectly in place.
That alone has me wanting to dive into the archives of Jade Wilson.
Sunny
Okay.
My eyebrows tug together, conflict washing over me. She seemed ready to extend her claws and now she’s retreating. It’s hard to read tone in text messages, so maybe I had it wrong.
Matteo
Can I take you out when I get home?
Sunny
Just as friends.
